❖ Question:
What is the authenticity of the narration:
"Whoever says اللهم أجرني من النار seven times in the morning and evening will be saved from the Fire"?
This narration is found in Mishkāt al-Maṣābīḥ, Book of Supplications. I read somewhere that Shaykh al-Albānī (رحمه الله) classified it as weak, but I do not recall the exact reference.
❖ Answer:
الحمد لله، والصلاة والسلام علىٰ رسول الله، أما بعد!
✿ Primary Sources of the Narration:
This narration is found in the following Hadith collections:
◈ Sunan Abī Dāwūd (Ḥadīth No: 5079, 5080)
◈ As-Sunan al-Kubrā by al-Nasāʾī (Ḥadīth No: 9939)
◈ ʿAmal al-Yawm wa al-Laylah by al-Nasāʾī (Ḥadīth No: 111)
◈ Ṣaḥīḥ Ibn Ḥibbān (Mawārid al-Ẓamān, Ḥadīth No: 2346)
✿ Scholarly Opinions:
➊ Ḥāfiẓ al-Mundhirī (رحمه الله):
In at-Targhīb wa at-Tarhīb (Vol. 1, Pg. 303–304, Ḥadīth 663), he indicated that the narration is ḥasan.
➋ Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar (رحمه الله):
In Natāʾij al-Afkār fī Takhrīj Aḥādīth al-Adhkār (2/326), he graded the narration as ḥasan.
✿ About the Narrators:
➊ Muslim ibn al-Ḥārith (رضي الله عنه):
A Companion of the Prophet ﷺ.
Referenced in Tajrīd Asmāʾ aṣ-Ṣaḥābah by adh-Dhahabī (2/75) and others.
➋ Ḥārith ibn Muslim:
There is disagreement about him:
- Imām Dāraquṭnī and others considered him majhūl (unknown).
- Some scholars listed him among the Companions.
Referenced in Maʿrifat aṣ-Ṣaḥābah by Abū Nuʿaym al-Aṣbahānī (Vol. 2, Pg. 794, Entry 659).
✿ Principle Regarding Disputed Companionship:
If a narrator’s status as a Companion is disputed, and no explicit criticism (jarḥ mufassar) is reported against him, he is considered ḥasan al-ḥadīth.
(See: at-Talkhīṣ al-Ḥabīr, Vol. 1, Pg. 74, Ḥadīth 70)
✿ Endorsement of Ḥārith ibn Muslim:
The following scholars have supported or accepted him:
✔ Ibn Ḥibbān
✔ al-Haythamī (Majmaʿ az-Zawāʾid, 8/99)
✔ Ibn Ḥajar
✔ al-Mundhirī (as mentioned earlier)
Hence, he is regarded as a ḥasan al-ḥadīth narrator.
❖ Conclusion:
In light of these details, it becomes clear that:
Shaykh al-Albānī’s (رحمه الله) weakening of this narration due to alleged ignorance of Ḥārith ibn Muslim is not valid.
Rather, the narration is ḥasan li-dhātihi (sound in itself).
Reference: Fatāwā ʿIlmiyyah, Vol. 1, Kitāb al-Duʿāʾ, Pg. 484
Cited from: Monthly Shahādat, January 2003 Editionھذا ما عندي واللہ أعلم بالصواب
